New York Cannabis Company Gets Kosher Certification

Vireo Health of New York, one of five medical marijuana companies licensed in the Empire State, announced Wednesday that all of the company’s products produced there have been certified as kosher by the Orthodox Union.

The certification process included visits by Orthodox Union rabbis to Vireo’s New York cannabis cultivation and lab sites. Union officials also met with company executives to verify kosher standards were being met.

The Orthodox Union is the world’s biggest kosher certification organization.

Vireo has four dispensaries in New York – Albany, Binghamton, Queens, and White Plains – that are scheduled to open in January.

“Judaism prioritizes health and encourages the use of medicine designed to improve one’s health or reduce pain,” said Rabbi Menachem Genack, CEO of OU Kosher, the union’s kosher certification arm.

In Maryland, a company applying for four dispensary licenses, Cannavations MD, also plans to sell kosher-certified cannabis should it win a license.

One comment on “New York Cannabis Company Gets Kosher Certification”

Interesting article … I wonder if the Maryland Dispensary application group as mentioned understands that Kosher or Halal certification needs to come from the grower or manufacturer and not the dispensary itself?